Peertube: Should mobile user also seed ?

[flyingrub]

Mobile users often don't have a lot of data plan so this could be a problem.

Some ideas :

• Don't seed by default on 3g/4g
• Only seed on wifi ?
• Allow registered users to enable the seed on mobile network ?

[Chocobozzz]

It's a very good idea. But I don't think we can detect if the user is on 3g/4g or on wifi, so just don't seed on mobile device.

[NeodarZ]

Or just have an option like checkbox for seed ?

[tcitworld]

But I don't think we can detect if the user is on 3g/4g or on wifi

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Network_Information_API

[flyingrub]

After digging a little : https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/480 ...
I opened another issue : https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/1212

[rigelk]

Since detecting if the user is on a mobile network has scarce support, we could make the assumption phones are using a mobile network and just detect is the client is on a phone (detecting that is way easier).

Of course that is not perfect, but it's patching the most critical use case, where phone contracts often have limited data volumes.

Speaking of a mobile detection library: https://github.com/KoderLabs/ngx-device-detector - but maybe there is something even more lightweight?

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EDIT: some testing shows webtorrent shares very little data on mobile connections anyway

[Chocobozzz]

Implemented in our new player in https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/commit/39aad8cc856a8173e7a77c198b3968952d39f4b7